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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Railroad wreck on the W.U. Road, Beloit, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Section of overall panorama, showing railroad station. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn and colored map of Wisconsin showing the railroad routs and railroad land grants La Cross and Milwaukee Railroad, St. Croix and Tomah Railroad... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad tracks and several houses. Several railroad employees are doing repair work on the tracks, and one man is riding on a handcar. Be... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Pass #497 issued for free travel during the year 1878 by the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated group portrait of men and women gathered around the Turner House, which was erected by John Turner to house railroad men and construction... |
| Date: | 07 01 1871 |
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| Description: | Railroad surveying party in camp somewhere north of Green Bay. The men were surveyors for the Chicago & Northwestern railroad extension. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View towards a train at the Kilbourn City (now known as Wisconsin Dells) railroad depot, with a crowd of people on the platform. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Kilbourn Bridge at the Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. A locomotive is pulling railroad cars over the bridge. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a Chicago & Northwestern Railway train at a depot in an unidentified town. The railroad station is behind the train. On the right... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with snow banks next to the Madison-Portage Railroad tracks. Stereo. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroad, 2... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View over town looking east from the railroad station. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Map created between 1871 and 1880. Shows townships, post offices, a possible railroad to Penoka Iron Range, and the North Wisconsin Railroad. |
| Date: | 10 27 1877 |
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| Description: | The arrival of the first train in Waukon, on the Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad line. There is a large crowd gathered near the tracks, and one man stands on... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with men along railroad tracks in snow and a train engine behind the men. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroa... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A builder's elevation drawing of the Hinkley railroad locomotive built for the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Lake shore with men and railroad tracks on Devil's Lake. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | View of the lower level of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad bridge at the Wisconsin Dells that would have been used by pedestrians and horse-d... |
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